The tragic death of Fred Turbide was easily the most moving story I covered in 2017.
The Edmonton businessman was duped last fall in an online investment scam known as binary option trading and fatally shot himself after losing more than $300,000 over just a few months.

The Beast of Fort McMurray was a massive, chaotic and catastrophic event. It’s hard to grasp exactly how the wildfire spread and how it was fought, but I was given the opportunity to spend a month digging into these issues so I could grasp it and relate to readers what had happened.